Automattic is currently working on a refresh of the wordpresscom-video-server project that will improve support for low-power, mobile devices requiring specialized encoding profiles. These changes are expected to change database schema, selectors for best match video, thumbnail handlers, and more. These are some core pieces of the framework; it’s best not to break the framework foundation too often and cause implementors to change their builds.

If you follow core WordPress development you may have recently noticed a post on WordPress 3.1 scope and some hints at what that community plans to implement in WordPress 3.2. Expect a few changes from the WordPress community around “content types” and a general interest around utilizing custom post types possible in WordPress 3.0 in new ways. WordPress 3.2, expected early 2011, currently includes a media type overhaul that will likely impact wordpresscom-video-server implementations again. Some foundational changes that will ultimately bring more attention to video as a publishing type within the WordPress publishing system.